{"id":30780,"date":"2025-04-02T21:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T02:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/?p=30780"},"modified":"2025-04-02T21:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T02:50:08","slug":"elder-financial-abuse-lawyers-ssek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/elder-financial-abuse-lawyers-ssek\/","title":{"rendered":"Elder Financial Abuse Lawyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Did You Suffer Investment Losses While Working With Former Morgan Stanley Broker Ronald Diaz?\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Our Elder Financial Abuse Lawyers Represent Seniors and Their Families<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Shepherd Smith Edwards and Kantas Elder Financial Abuse Lawyers (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/\">investorlawyers.com<\/a>) is investigating claims of portfolio losses involving former customers of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/brokercheck.finra.org\/individual\/summary\/5283407\">ex-Morgan Stanley broker Ronald Diaz<\/a>. The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) permanently barred him in 2023 and he was fired by the brokerage firm in 2022 following allegations that he defrauded a customer.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the ex-Florida financial advisor is sentenced to 22 months in prison after he pleaded guilty to wire fraud. Diaz\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/elder-financial-abuse-by-brokers-and-investment-advisers.html\">defrauded one of his elderly<\/a>\u00a0clients by misrepresenting an investment in an annuity that supposedly guaranteed a 10% return. According to the\u00a0US Attorney&#8217;s Office for the District of Arizona, he told the customer to move $970K to Diaz\u2019s family members, who then transferred most of the money back to the financial advisor.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/elder-financial-abuse-lawyers-ssek\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Elder Financial Abuse Lawyers\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did You Suffer Investment Losses While Working With Former Morgan Stanley Broker Ronald Diaz?\u00a0Our Elder Financial Abuse Lawyers Represent Seniors and Their Families Shepherd Smith Edwards and Kantas Elder Financial Abuse Lawyers (investorlawyers.com) is investigating claims of portfolio losses involving former customers of\u00a0ex-Morgan Stanley broker Ronald Diaz. 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